Effects of Yoga Exercises on Diabetic Mellitus as Validated by Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Context And Aims: Effects of practicing yoga in diabetic mellitus (DM) patients have been identified to improve in control of blood glucose levels. The purpose of this work is to evaluate changes in blood flow of calf muscles after specific yoga postures for patients with DM using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques. Time of flight (TOF) magnetic resonance angiography maximum intensity projection (MIP), T maps, T maps, and diffusion-weighted Imaging are performed on volunteers and DM patients both pre- and post-exercise.

Cost-Effective, Integrated In Vitro Phantoms for Cardiac MRI.

To provide lab scale in vitro phantom solutions for cardiac MR (CMR) studies that can be used for imaging structure and function as well as calorimetric measurements. The phantoms were purposed to accept user inputs such as beats per minute (BPM) and flow rate. We developed two generations of phantoms.

Automatic motion correction of Musculoskeletal MRI using DSLR camera.

The purpose of this study is to illustrate motion correction in Musculoskeletal (MSK) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) through utilization of information from an optical tracker to capture the extent and instant of motion. A Digital Single Lens Reflexive camera is employed as the optical tracker to capture the extent and instant of motion. A checkerboard is utilized as a marker that is placed on the coil.